Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:57:08 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash increment in a given way Message-ID: <20101211175708.GH11485@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <485300.96624.qm@web121409.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <485300.96624.qm@web121409.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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On Sat 11 Dec 2010 at 06:34:20 PST S Mathias wrote:
>It's ok, that i can use this, when i want an incrementing sequence, in a given way:
>
># {START..END..INCREMENT}
>$ for i in {0..10..2}; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done
>Welcome 0 times
>Welcome 2 times
>Welcome 4 times
>Welcome 6 times
>Welcome 8 times
>Welcome 10 times
>$
>
>but what's the "magic" for this? :
>
>$ MAGIC; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done
>Welcome 0 times
>Welcome 1 times
>Welcome 4 times
>Welcome 5 times
>Welcome 8 times
>Welcome 9 times
>$
man jot(1)
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